Twisted Carnival plans...

Yes folks.
We can finally stop looking and laughing at the Trav in black shoes and white socks and clown wig pic. HEELARIOUS....get it outta yo systems suckas.
Duane and I have finally put ideas to paper and transferred them to Photoshop.
We have provided you with our ideas for what the outside of our house is gonna look like.
The rest is up to all of you.....
Now, this is a photo that has been cropped to the best of our abilities in Photoshop, showing the entire span of the front lawn of our house and front of the house. You will notice a lot of shitty cloning stamp marks in the back. Please excuse the crudeness.
Let me direct your attention here.
Click this link to download the PDF version of the above pic.
As we begin, on the left. D and I are going to construct these two clown poles out of sheet metal (poles), and foam (for heads). For the heads, we are going to have 3 flat head shapes per pole top and they will be joined, in a triangular pattern. The clown heads on top willl NOT be 3d..that shit takes too long. Also, we were thinking of stringing those flags on ropes from the poles to the ground in front of the bushes (to kinda hide those).
This is a good place to show the kids where to enter. Beyond the clown to the left, we will block off the access from the other neighbors yard with something (we haven't decided yet).
If you go straight, that's where our garage is. We plan on getting tarp to cover the doors and paint them to resemble tent fabric. Above that, we will use foam and mount a decorative carnival-type border.
There are only two key character positions that we have thought about thus far, everyone else can input about where to be when they get here on this here blog.
Laura, as the snake charmer, will be by the tent fabric (garage) because she will have a large snake around her shoulders, made out of tubing, housing an interior air compressor hose, so when kids come up, she sprays it at them. The air compressor will be in the garage.
If we come back up front to the right of the poles, you will see Bri.
We have talked to him and since he is go good getting parents and kids riled up and getting them into the yard, he will be stationed towards the street, on a mini stage, fashioned by Duane out of wood.
To the far right of Bri, towards the other end of the circular drive, we will be having the cemetery from last year. The fencing will start at the "flower mound" in the yard and wrap around to the right to block off access from that part of the driveway, to the house. Somewhere in that area, we will be having the fog machine.....(we may need another one this year to REALLY get things smoky!).
So, to recap, we want kids to enter through the poles on the left, circle towards Laura and the front of the house.
Right above the front door, there will be a large flat piece of foamboard painted like a clown's face looking evilly down. There is a small step before you get to the porch. We don't want kids getting to this point as it can be dangerous. Mel mentioned she didn't want to dress up so we are trying to come up with a spooky way to have a ticket booth blocking the front door, and having Mel be the candy-giver. I was thinking of her hinding behind something, and putting her hands throuh holes with gloves on (like a carnival poster come to life, with her hands substituting a woman's on a poster and eye hole poked through for her to see the kids)...I dunno...let us know.
ANYHOO, to the right of the clown head, is a large sign we want out of fomeboard that will hang like it has fallen a little. I'll paint some weird spooky generic face looking down menacingly and the sign will read Spookhouse, like the house is one of those old spookhouses.
Finally, on all of the front windows, in an ode to Mel's great idea from last year, we will use some black foamcore and fashion old wooden planks "nailed" to the windows, like the building is condemned.
WHOO! This is a loooong-ass post but hopefully it gives you all an idea of what we want to do.
D and I are going to get all the supplies for this and makes all the stuff that you see here.
Now, from all of you, we need your help in littering the yard with your characters. In the coming weeks, I want people to post sketches of their costumes, the makeup they wanna have one, etc.
If you all have ideas for other things for the facade of the house, please feel free to share.
Bri is gonna be in charge of the lighting of said outside decor and we want all of your ideas on how to pump music and sound effects outside.